Erenhot (Houldjin Fm - general area) (Eocene of China)

Where: Nei Mongol, China (42.0° N, 112.0° E: paleocoordinates 42.9° N, 107.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Houldjin Formation, Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by IVPP

Primary reference: B.-Y. Wang, Z.-X. Qiu, Q.-Z. Zhang, L.-J. Wu, and P.-J. Ning. 2009. Large mammals found from Houldjin Formation near Erenhot, Nei Mongol, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 47(2):85-110 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 182574: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 08.11.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Creodonta - Hyaenodontidae
Hyaenodon sp. Laizer and Parieu 1838 creodont
EMM 0148
 Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae
Metatitan sp. Granger and Gregory 1943 brontothere
EMM 0155 and 0156
 Perissodactyla - Paraceratheriidae
Aralotherium sp. Borissiak 1939 odd-toed ungulate
EMM specimens
 Perissodactyla - Amynodontidae
Cadurcodon houldjinensis Wang et al. 2009 odd-toed ungulate
EMM 0149-0152